Former Eastern Cape head of education, Mthunywa Ngonzo along with the department's incumbent deputy Director-General, Ray Tywakadi, and three others appeared in court in connection with IT fraud amounting to R59m.
Former Eastern Cape education department head, Mthunywa Ngonzo and the department's incumbent deputy Director-General, Ray Tywakadi, briefly appeared in the East London Magistrate's Court on Monday along with three others in connection with a case of R59 million IT fraud. "Generally, any shift of funds within the budget of the ECDoE would have required a report to seek approval from National Treasury for the shifting of funds to be utilised.
Ngonzo, the SG at the time, was aware of the budget split but failed to ratify the intended budget split and nothing was reported to Treasury.